Ellen Winkler is a print maker, painter and graphic designer who lives in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. She studied art during her undergraduate years at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. That educational experience afforded her the opportunity to live and work in New York City as a participant in the Great Lakes Colleges Association "Semester in New York”. She worked as an apprentice to the artist, Willard Midgette.
She came to the Washington area in 1977 to pursue a graduate degree at George Washington University, where she focused on Graphic Design and painting. She studied with Sam Molina, Arthur Hall Smith and Douglas Teller. She was Art Director of The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Opinion and Arts weekly magazine, The Chronicle Review and is retired. She is a member of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, The Washington Print Foundation and The Washington Print Club.
Though she has been deeply influenced by the artist Jack Boul, and has spent much time exploring monotypes as a means of responding to the landscape, she has recently been exploring, drypoint, copper engraving and etching. Her etchings particularly reflect recent drawings which are explorations of seen and unseen places. She has also been producing paintings both in oil and acrylic.
Her work is held in the collections of The Library of Congress, Corbin and Pamela Gwaltney and Harold and Martha Quayle.
